The Tasmanian Tiger, also known as the Thylacine, is one of the most famous creatures that many believe to be extinct. Once native to Tasmania, Australia, and New Guinea, the thylacine was declared ...

From an Australian frog that swallowed its own eggs to woolly mammoths, scientists could soon bring back long-lost species from the dead.

An old film from the last century captures the life of what would be the last of a very common Australian animal species.

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the ...

In 1980, a single male grasshopper was collected on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde. No one knew then that this ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

In early January 2025, 20 red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha), a parrot species that was extinct in the Brazilian state ...

The home of the only wild population of Victorian grassland earless dragons is no longer viable as a private farm, but governments are unwilling to buy the land for conservation.